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Brahms Violin Concerto
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Originally posted by makropulos View PostI agree –both Kreisler performances are tremendous in slightly different ways, but Barbirolli certainly brings something special to the orchestral contribution in the later recording, Kreisler's playing sounds wonderfully free, the recorded sound is good for its age, and I don't know any performance that is quite so magical when the orchestra steals back in after the first movement cadenza. For me, a magical record.
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Originally posted by makropulos View PostI agree –both Kreisler performances are tremendous in slightly different ways, but Barbirolli certainly brings something special to the orchestral contribution in the later recording, Kreisler's playing sounds wonderfully free, the recorded sound is good for its age, and I don't know any performance that is quite so magical when the orchestra steals back in after the first movement cadenza. For me, a magical record.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostAbsolutely .
No still doesn’t do much for me.Last edited by Barbirollians; 10-05-24, 09:39.
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I have listened after a long time to the Menuhin/Furtwangler today . It had not really ever made as much an impression on me as their Beethoven (both)and Mendelssohn recordings I suspect largely because the 1943 Boult and 1959 Kempe are both so stupendous but on having a day off today and really listening to it - it’s magical no wonder Charlotte Gardner put it up there in her top four in Gramophone.
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I well remember buying the Menuhin/Lucerne/Furtwangler when it appeared on HMV Treasury (HLM 7015, 1972), with their Philharmonia recordings of the Beethoven Romances as a fill-up. For several years it was my only disc of the concerto; I still have it , and still think it ideal. There's a lovely photo on the sleeve of the two artists acknowledging applause.
As an impecunious student I appreciated the HMV TReasury LPs. They were cheap but well-engineered and documented. And apart from Anthony Griffiths' splendid 'Retrospect Series' on World Records, not many companies were interested in old recordings. Another early favourite was the 1936 Bruno Walter Das Lied von der Erde.
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